With two seasons of reality TV, 32,000 Twitter followers and her first music video under her belt, Veronica Bravo is headed for the bright lights of LA.

After the five-piece group Black Ivory failed to take off on The X Factor, the 17-year-old singer is giving girl bands another shot and leaving her Landsdale home for the US in mid-April.

"We don't really have a girl group name just yet but the girl group is very unique and different," she said.

"We don't compare ourselves with anyone, we're not like Little Minx or Pussycat Dolls or Spice Girls; we're a pop group but we have a bit of urban and R&B. It's definitely for the radio."

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Bravo's supported Justice Crew and Johnny Ruffo on tour, performed in front of supergroup One Direction and now she's dating one fifth of Australian boy band The Janoskians, James Yammouni, who she met on Twitter.

"He came over to Perth when he was on tour and we met then," she said of their first face-to-face meeting two weeks ago.

"He's very supportive and he knows the industry really well so it's good having that."

So fervent are Bravo's fans and followers that the joke hashtag "#variam" – a combination of her name with a friend's – trended worldwide on Twitter.

But the singer said her popularity on social media had also had its downsides.

"I used to get a bit of hate on Twitter sometimes, girls used to get funny, and that got to me," she said.

"But having family and friends and James, because he goes through it as well, having those people go 'You have to just ignore that', made me go 'Oh well, I'm going to get hate, everyone's going to get it'. That made me stronger."

Bravo will work and live with her fellow band members in LA and said her TV knockbacks had given her the experience she needed to be successful with a new group.

"When I had Ronan Keating as my mentor the second year, he gave me a lot of advice with the girls, saying that we had to connect as a girl group," she said.

"But because that girl group didn't work on The X Factor I can take all the things that went wrong and didn't go so well into the girl group I'm with now and make it better."

"She's such an inspiration because she's from Perth, she's a singer, she's a girl just like me," Bravo said.

"I saw her just before I left; she was at the airport, off doing her thing and I was off to LA.

"She told me 'Keep pushing, audition for things', and when she told me that I was like 'That is a good idea, I should audition for things' and that's when I auditioned for the girl group, so she did encourage me a lot."

With just a few months since her graduation from Mercedes College, Bravo admitted moving overseas and trading her dad for a professional manager was a "big move".

"Mum got a little bit sad because she'll miss me and I'm not even 18 yet, I'm so young so it's a big thing, it's a big move," she said.

"But my parents are so supportive, they were like 'You've always wanted this and finally something's happening so take it with both hands'."